Heart Health Blog

One of the most fascinating projects I worked on as a young researcher asked a deceptively simple question: Does iron fuel clogged arteries? The idea wasn’t min...

In the mid-80s during my training at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, a landmark clinical trial reported that reducing high levels of low-density li...

I had always been a big fan of Charlie Hustle, having collected his ‘63 Rookie baseball card and then in ‘65 receiving the same 3 Rose cards in a single Topps p...

In a recent issue of the American College of Cardiology Magazine, my colleagues, Rupinder Bahniwal, MD, Tiffany Brazile, MD and I, reviewed how joy, laughter an...

As Lisa and I celebrate our wedding anniversary, I can’t help but flip through the highlight reel of our adventures together. There’s the honeymoon snapshot wit...

During my first year at Rutgers Medical School, I recall the excitement of my medical school professors, Darwin Prockop and Bjorn Olsen, as they recounted the r...

For Rutgers basketball fans, the 2024-2025 season was a calamitous disappointment, to say the least. After all, we had two of the most talented freshmen players...

While most of my junior HS classmates were spending their free time playing sports or socializing with family and friends, we ware commuting to Spanish Harlem a...

On a cool and crisp day in April 1967, a family friend treated us to our first Yankeesgame at the original stadium that Ruth built. Still remembering that day a...

In the early 1960s, our family moved from Queens to a sprawling apartment complex in Brooklyn known as Beach Haven (pictured above), owned by none other than Fr...

This week’s publication of RESPECT-EPA , adds more data to the 2 prior clinical trials JELIS and REDUCE-IT that found purified eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) to red...

In contrast to high levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), where reduction invariably results in clinical benefit (irrespective of the therapy/t...